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  • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldI just want to talk
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    5 months ago

    I think it is LED technology. LEDs have a very small bandwidth. Even white leds are just three very small small bandwidth emissions.

    The very tight intensity in such a small bandwidth is hard on the eyes. Even when compared with the same power of older lighting technology, which has a comparatively massive bandwidth.

    LEDs could be designed to compensate for this better. They could add more different colours of LEDs to the matrix that makes up white LEDs.


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    7 months ago

    Most common maybe. I feel most windows users aren’t actively choosing to use windows. It’s just what they are left with.

    People usually choose to use Linux or Mac. As Linux is rarely preinstalled or like Mac more expensive (when it comes preinstalled) than the windows devices for sale. I’m not convinced given a fair shake, windows would have the market share it does.

    Servers have highly informed people making decisions about their operating systems. When weighing the options about uptime, security, etc they rarely choose windows. Cost isn’t really a factor relative to the price and operation of the server.





  • It is much fairer to use GDP.

    If a nation chooses to have lots of social programs the government would need to have a higher income. This would result in higher NATO spending target. A nation that doesn’t spend on social programmes would likely have a smaller government income and a reduced NATO commitment.

    Additionally how the nations government works may have an effect. If a nation has lots of smaller local authorities that raise their own money and spend it themselves (like US states) then the federal/sovereign government would have a smaller income. An income that doesn’t really match the nations governments spending.

    GDP solves this and makes it agnostic to government structure and policies. The stronger your economy the bigger the commitment you make. Countries with less GDP per person tend to have lower labour costs. So manufacturing and military wages scale well relative to the countries population.


  • Conservative is used to imply right wing. Much of their rhetorical techniques use conservative mindsets (things were better in the past, change won’t improve things, ‘great’ again etc).

    Conservatives have been sidelined since Ragan and Thatcher. Neoliberalism displaced conservatives. With the left taking up liberalism as well the right hand to shift to distinguish itself. Now they are fiscal libertarians and right wing populists. These terms are not liked because they are deluded or extreme. So they still call themselves conservatives, because when you say right wing populist we think of fascists or Roman emperors that inspired fascists.




  • Soccer was an abbreviation used by posh people. Associate football -> sociate -> soccer. Much like rugby is called ruggers by the same group of people today. It was an informal term.

    Association football was popular amongst the working class in the UK, who didn’t use the same types of abbreviations. So it wasn’t referred to as soccer by the them. When radio/TV became common the presenters wouldn’t use abbreviations like soccer and so it was referred to as Association Football or Football.

    In the US the posh abbreviation took over, likely because many British travellers to the US would be posh and not working class. At least the ones traveling for leisure and taking part in sports activities. Working class would mostly be immigrants and wouldn’t be brushing shoulders with those in sports media.

    American call the rugby like sport, American Football because it is played on foot and not horse. It would also share a common ancestry of completely moving a ball from one place to another on foot, like football and rugby.




  • It’s better. Because metric is still an option, but it’s not as good as it could be.

    If the English speaking world fully committed to metric DIY, maker stuff and cooking online would be much better. But I’d much rather this than a fully imperial system. It much easier to work in metric and convert between than work in imperial. Imperial requires a lot more knowledge of the measurement system your working with than metric does. Because everything scales in metric the same and you can use exponentials or prefixes to express sizes. Though the US imperial system does simplify this system by using pounds for everything rather than stones.

    It is surprising that the US still clings to imperial measurement despite being the first Anglosphere country to adopt metric/decimal currency. Along with the metric system being associated with liberty and enlightenment that was a big part of the philosophy behind the start of the US.

    When it comes down to, in the UK and the US both imperial systems are quantified by metric standards. So it’s purely a mirage, because all reference lead back to metric measurements. Not brass yardsticks installed in the town centre. Imperial is now just a middle man maintained for nostalgia. The cost to switching is every decreasing as all series industry uses metric.



  • It’s old people. They vote and don’t like change.

    Everyone in the UK under 40 never used imperial in their education, but everything is still imperial.

    Even stuff that’s not supposed to be. Milk is sold in pints but labelled in ml. Sometimes it’s litres because these are smaller. Timbre is all sold in a metric equivalent, but it isn’t consistent. You don’t know if the piece you’ve had delivered is 2.4m or 2.44m. Rulers have both metric and imperial, unless you pay extra for a single system - which makes them harder to use.

    The worst thing is recipes, many recipes are imperial online because of the USA. American imperial measurements aren’t the same as UK ones.

    It is all driven by ignorance. The royal family (TV show) summed this ignorance up best. They complained it took them longer to get to the destination because their sat nav was in kilometres and there’s more kilometres than miles so everything is further away.



  • The Linux kernel isn’t in a position that it can manipulate the market through imposed standards. For most Linux distros their distribution and installation is controlled by the end user. There isn’t a default distro - except for pre-installed which is marginal.

    The user of a Linux distro has a choice in the one they choose. They actively have to seek it out in most cases. So they impart agree to the UI, default apps and package management system.

    Where as people buying windows, apple, android and chrome os. Are presented with a default browser and in either can’t or are heavily discouraged from choosing an alternative. Users may also have to use a certain browser to access a website, which happens with chrome.

    The types of user are also different.

    Again this doesn’t become relevant unless an operating system is in a position to exploit (and has ambitions or has exploited) its large/monopolistic market share. The Linux kernel hasn’t approached this. Not even in the server market, as Microsoft remain a powerful player and the operators are highly informed non commercial users.



  • These are all just repacked websites. Its just a browser for a web service. It’s also an issue as you no longer get to choose the browser you use.

    The web engine isn’t the same as a car engine. Web engines define how the road is built, it’s direction, it’s speed and it’s destination. Leaving this up to Google or apple is bad news for everyone. Just like it was bad to leave it up to Microsoft with internet explorer.

    A big problem is how chrome has been masked to appear as different browsers and services. Even desktop app like you mention, as well as web views for android apps all running on chromium where you like it or not.